EVE Speedlinking for Thursday June 10th, 2010

Here's the latest links that got my attention recently. Note that some of them will be added to the Guides page.

• Non-aggressive play style (Ecliptic Rift)
• Episode 17 (The Planet Risk Show Podcast)
• Blogging and Operational Security - A discussion (On blogging)
• Upgrades (Kirith Kodachi on Sleipnir and Wolf setups)
• Project Rifter #1 (Nash Kadavr)
• Placement of POS Defenses (potshot's excellent post)
• Why all but 330k people should hate EVE (Hardcore Casual)
• An update on OUCH and its nullsec survival training (Travels of Black Claw)
• Planet Play (Winterblink)
• Lego Halo: The Ringworld (Hawty McBloggy)
• We Need More Women in Indie Games (Border House)
• Wench with a Wrench: New Beginnings (seems I'm not alone in seeking change)
• CSM Processes « Herschel Yamamoto for CSM (on the CSM)
  
  
• TIGAER-DESIGN.COM_.v5 » Archive » Phoenix Rising
• Phoenix Rising: Hadley's Hope - Camera Mapping With Vue on Vimeo

On Massively:

• EVE Online's planets are open for business 
• EVE Evolved: What not to expect from EVE Online 
• EVE Evolved: Ratting, part 1: Strategies 
• EVE Evolved: Ratting, part 2: Flying safe!

The "Why we love EVE Online" Contest List of Participants!

When I first launched this competition almost 2 weeks ago, I wanted to list all the participants at the end of that original article. But then, both CCP and Massively.com mentioned the contest (well ok, I kind of begged them too!), and I got bombarded with entries. So much so, that I thought it would be more appropriate to have them all listed here on a separate post.

Due to this overwhelming deluge of entries, I've had to come to the fact that I'll miss the deadline I had set for myself to announce the 10 lucky winners. Had the turnout been what a typical Blog Banter is - say 30-some entries - then I could have made the deadline, but 56! Fifty-freakin-six entries! I mean for Godliness of the Amarr, the Liberty of the Gallente, the Discipline of the Caldari and the Spiritual Awakening of the Minmatar, there's a very limited number of hours in a day, and I do have a day job! :p

So, I'm asking - correction - I'm letting you know that I'll have the results ready for a BIG SPLASH DOWN this next Monday, the 8th day of the month of purification, in the year 2010 C.E.. How's that!?

Take a look at the list below, and you'll understand what I'm up against! A victim of my own success if there ever was one!

List of Eligible Participants:

1. A Mule in EvE
2. Astral's EVE Trial by fire
3. The beginnings of piracy
4. Guns Ablaze
5. The Midnight Sun
6. Eve Opportunist
7. Sered's Lives
8. The Lathspell of Mithrandir
9. The Light of the Stars
10. Dense Veldspar
11. Latro's Bunker
12. Yet Another Pilots Chronicles
13. Morphisat's Blog
14. EVE SOB
15. Zen and the Art of Nullsec
16. Tastes Like Chicken
17. EVE What?!
18. A Vasty Nothingness
19. Ally's Walkabout
20. Mark Mustang
21. Why do I love EVE Online
22. Bouli's Mind
23. Weynards EVE
24. Why do I Love Eve
25. An Extremely Complicated Survival Machine
26. Surviving within the void
27. Fua Consternation
28. Taxtro Grave
29. A Sebiestor Scholar
30. JugBlog
31. The Wolfs Den
32. Wench with a Wrench
33. Yarrbear Tales
34. EVEOGANDA
35. Kirith Darkblade
36. Vive Virtual
37. Adventures in Mission Running
38. Normandy's EvE Online Musings
39. Faint Resolution
40. Diary of a pod pilot
41. FlashFresh
42. The New Victoria in New Eden
43. Don't Fear the Mutant
44. Infinity and Doom
45. Event Horizons
46. acolite.eu
47. MushskiC's Marshmallow Mountain
48. Why We Love EVE
49. into the unknown with gun and camera
50. Lyeit Lair
51. Achernar
52. EVE Online Contest
53. Cogito Ergo Yarr
54. Jump on Contact
55. Ecliptic Rift
56. SpiderMonkey Express

And the two following entries who unfortunately missed the deadline

• Aggressive Tendencies
• Learning to Fly

Looking back at 2008, the year of possibilities!

Life has mysterious ways of presenting opportunities to you. Sometimes you're going with the flow gaining speed and momentum to get you where you want to go. Sometimes it's as if you're fighting up a raging river in early spring.
In late March of last year I hit a speed bump in my professional career and found myself with a lot more time on my hands. Ever the optimistic, I leveraged this opportunity to turn this humble little EVE Online Blog and make it the best EVE blog on the Intertubes! The rest as they say, is history!

Let's review the year together and recap the major milestone for this capsuleer blogger.

From 2005 through 2007:

• 61,569 visitors
• 89,582 pageviews

In 2008 alone this blog received:

• 135,688 visitors
• 206,217 pageviews
• 1147 comments
• 506 Daily Average of RSS subscribers (in the last month)
  

I'm literally floored when I look at the above statistics. Who could have foreseen such results! A lot of work went into achieving these results, and though a lot of that work was done alone, I could not have reached these heights without the help of others.

The Sins of EVE Online

Over at Massively, James Egan has put together a list of all the evil schemes New Eden capsuleers can lure their fellow players to. It's an interesting list, since all these villainous activities are allowed in the game. I don't know of any other MMO out there where you can make a living doing one of these. Most would be considered griefing in other MMOs, but in EVE's sand box approach it's all available to the more sinister capsuler population.

Check it out!

EVE Online Speedlinking for May 13th, 2008

Well, EVE turned 5 years old over the last week. Wow, that's 1,824 days one could have been training a single character. I wonder how many skill points that would be? If anyone can figure that one out, I'd love to know! Anyways, here are the items for the past week.

• Have Clone, Will Travel: Ambulation in the EVE tutorial - My very own article over at Massively.com
• A video of Noah "Hammerhead" Ward - Dates back from the last fan fest
• EVE Skill System Demystified Part 1 and Part 2 - Brendan's excellent piece on the EVE Online Skill System.
• A Survey over at PlayOn on how we create and customize our avatars - With Ambulation coming, I thought this post was appropriate.
• EVE Online Misconceptions - A good article which I've talked about earlier.
• EVE Online Celebrates Five Years With A Surprise - Kotaku on CCP's milestone.
• EVE Info - Just noticed they had updated their site.
• What is this council of stellar management anyway? - CCP Xhagen updates us on the CSM.
• EVE Online Smacktalk: A Primer on How To Do It - Seriously funny piece.
• WarpDriveActive.com goes live! - Blinky's worked hard on this one. Head over to the EVE Forums to let him know what you think!
• The Drone Bay episode #9 got released - But you knew that with your Astrology V skill!
• As well, WDA: Industry episode #4 is finally here - It's been a long time waiting for this one!

Have Clone, Will Travel - a new EVE column

Earlier today, my first feature was published over at Massively.com. The column, called Have Clone, Will Travel, is of course a play on words on Robert Heinlein's wonderful science fiction novel Have Space Suit - Will Travel. My first article, Ambulation in the EVE tutorial, is about how Ambulation could be used to improve the current EVE Tutorial.

Do not worry, I'll still be posting here on a regular basis, daily if time permits. The fine folks at Massively.com have given me an opportunity I could not refuse. For now, my column will appear weekly, but that may change to bi-weekly if RL gets in the way (summer will soon be upon us here is eastern Canada).

So head over, and let me know your thoughts!

EVE Online Speedlinking for April 6th, 2008

• Put your money where your mouth is - On EVE's economy and trade
• The Drone Bay Episode #5 - The guys pull one off without me and catch of few fishes!
• EVE Linkage - Thanks to my mate GodlessWanderer, a few good links
• Eve Online Creator Reynir Harðarson - World of Darkness fans, rejoice!
• The CSM Candidate Infozone - Blinky brilliantly puts together a list, all by himself!
• CCP’s Torfi Frans Olafsson On The Future Of Eve - Another great article from Jim
• Mammoth Explosion - When Wilhelm loses, he loses big!
• EVE Online Touch Screen video - running EVE on a Touch Screen PC

Quiet week! Enjoy!

The Drone Bay: Episode 5 - The April Fool's episode!

[Though this is being posted way after this episode came out, I still want to be able to keep track of them chronologically. In the future I'll be posting as they get released! Promised.]








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Show notes:

Episode 5 (Or perhaps the new Episode 1 is more appropriate): Format Changes

We're a bit short on show notes this week. Suffice to say that there are big changes coming for The Drone Bay, and we hope you'll stick it out with us. CK was unable to join us, but Al and I soldiered on without him again. Look to see him back next week as we continue with our new format.

Until next time, lvl 22 war LFG for SFK. As always, you can e-mail us at dronebay[at]gmail.com.

The new format may require a new e-mail address, so be on the lookout for that.

[Wink Wink!!!]

EVE Online Speedlinking for April 1st, 2008

I know I'm a few days late for last week's speedlinking, but eh, no ones perfect! So here goes...

• Sins of a Solar Empire - Tipa pushed me over the edge and got me to play the demo
• Eve-Online: An incredible parody of the real world - an interesting perspective on EVE
• The music in Eve is mostly space music you know - Senyek on the background of EVE
• Getting into EVE Online - Jim Rossignol on starting up in EVE Online
• The Wholesale of Ravens... - Van Hemlock explains his EVE finances
• Put your money where your mouth is - Speaking of money...
• The Drone Bay #4 is now out! - Enjoy and let us know what you think!
• EVE Linkage - My buddy Godlesswanderer is back in EVE with some crazy screenshots!
• Eve Online Creator Reynir Harðarson - An interview on White Wolf CCP, based in Atlanta

That's it for now!

The Drone Bay: Episode 4

[Though this is being posted way after this episode came out, I still want to be able to keep track of them chronologically. In the future I'll be posting as they get released! Promised.]







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Show notes:

The Drones have gone rogue in Episode 4! This week the team is back together, and Al puts his sobriety in danger by drinking every time Crovan screws up a segment intro. Will his liver survive? Find out in this week's Drone Bay Podcast!

Bring on the Drones:

In the weekly recap, the team discusses the forum threads on the CSM, the fake RA titan deathmail, the state of the Great War, and more.

In DON'T PANIC, Al gets walked through missions and mission rewards by the grizzled old vets. Crovan recommends The Kill Mission Survival Guide (works in game) for all budding (or experienced) mission runners out there.

In the listener feedback section, Crovan answers a couple of ship setup questions, and each of the guys chooses one listener mail to discuss on air. Did yours make it? Listen to find out!

This weekâs out of game discussion is replaced with a community focus, where the guys promote Morphisat's Blog, Shut Up, We're Talking, and Massively.

Please, please keep giving us feedback. We canât get to everything every week, but we do appreciate the input and questions. If youâre interested in voice mailing us, please try the mp3 or wav file in an e-mail method for now while I try to get Skype sorted again.

Contact Info:

GAX Online Group: The Drone Bay

E-Mail:
dronebay[at]gmail.com (comments/questions for everyone)
crovan[at]eve-mail.net
crazykinux[at]gmail.com
alsedrech[at]gmail.com

Skype:Dronebay

Blogs:
Bitter Old Noob (Crovan)
CrazyKinux's Musings
The Littlest Drone (Alsedrech)

EVE Online Speedlinking for March 22nd, 2008

Well as I start to put together this week's list of links, I've just docked into Phoenix Labs Home station in Khanid Prime. Seems that our ops in Nuken is coming to a close. During my absence on the other side of the pond, the orders were given to move back to KP. Khanid Kingdom has been home to PPL for so long it's hard to imagine leaving for too long.

Anyways, back to this week's news and links. It's a long one this week, so grab yourself a coffee and start reading!

• Post your interstellar résumé at EVE Careers - Massively.com on EVE-Careers site
• Beastoria strikes again? - EVE runs skin deep for this dedicated gamers!
• Probing - Votrian comes across a great probing guides and shares his thoughts on it
• Caldari Navy Ibis: Noob Adventures in New Eden - a new EVE Online newby blog
• Mahogany Finish - Very opinonated, yet so entertaining (Warning! WoW content present)
• Goonswarm wants you! - James from Kill Ten Rats comes across an interesting corp ad
• Warp Drive Active Podcast #31 and #32 are now available at the VW Podcast Collective
• Try Catch in Eve Online - Proof that the EVE Devs have a sense of humour
• EVE Online: Frickin Huge, Frickin Difficult, But Kinda Frickin Cool. - Even Halo players get hooked
• Return of the Drake - Meaderings of Wihelm2451 on Caldari NPC missions
• The Drone Bay Episode #3 - This time, without yours truly
• The Council of Stellar Management, new blog by Xhagen - the title says it all
• The Council of Stellar Management - Call for Candidates officially began on March 18th
• Eve Avatars - Animated Forum Avatars - as mentioned below, get yours quickly!
• Your favourite ship in Eve - So what's your pick?
• Elections for EVE's player council begin in May - The CSM becomes a reality, well almost.
• Player governance in EVE - James, yes the same James from above, on the CSM
• What Can Virtual-World Economists Tell Us about Real-World Economies? - Scientific American covers EVE Economics!
• Maugrim McFiriba's Eve Online Journal - A well done in-Character EVE blog
• The Daily Grind: In-game cash for subscriptions? - CCP's (partial) answer to Real-Money-Trade
• Probing part 2: Tools of the Trade - Votrian continues his essay on Probing
• EVE Online Holds Democratic Elections - More coverage of the CSM
• The Seven Month Itch - Keeping your EVE Mojo up!
• The Amalgamated CSM Thread - Omber Zombie's list of all CSM EVE Forum threads!
• EVE's Council of Stellar Management: Making E-Democracy Work - Crovan on the CSM
• The architects of EVE society talk player elections - An interview with CCP on the CSM
• Speaking of the CSM, WDA Podcast #32 has a great segment on it - Make sure you listen to it
• Agony Unleashed - Copter's EVE Online Corp website
• The Stoned Hippies - An EVE Corp website; don't let the name fool you though

As I said before, a busy week. Losts of news on the Council of Stellar Management this week, a result of CCP making the annoucement that the Call for Candidates was now open. MMO history in the making folks. We live in interesting times I tell ya!

Ok, now it's time to undock and pay a visit to a couple of pirates! Fly safe folks!

EVE Online Speedlinking for March 15th, 2008

Direct from London UK, here's the EVE Online news, blog posts and article that caught my interest during the last week!

• TurpsterVision: Don't tell Adam but I've been fooling around with EVE - Marc Turpin takes a ride in EVE and tells it all in a nice little video! More please...
• Urge…to…play…EVE…rising… - Syncaine needs a small nudge from us to get back full time into EVE. Anyone?
• Trinity 1.1 Boost Patch Being Deployed. Sorta. - Dr. Winterblink plays therapist for fellow players who face EVE withdrawal syndrome due to the extended downtime.
• Trinity 1.1 Patch: A New Button! - Finally, a logoff button!
• Learning curve - Is EVE really that tough?
• So what do you do when Eve is down? - Homeworld 2 anyone?
• Making Factional Warfare Work In EVE: Realistic Politics - A better EVE lore?
• Under The Hood: The Depths of Space - James over at Massively explores space-based MMOs

So how did you survive the extended downtime? Let us know!

Fly safe all!